Summer training workshops

The summer months are a great opportunity to catch up on training and development and we’ve got two workshops coming up at the University of Leeds in July.

To keep up to date with our training workshops, keep an eye on our training pages. Courses for the new academic year will be advertised in late August.

On to the workshops:

Software Carpentry with Python

Dates: July 9th and 10th 2018

Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

In this workshop, you will learn the basics of Python, the Linux command line shell and version control using Git and Github.

Instructors for this workshop are: Martin Callaghan; Harriet Peel and James O’Neill (all University of Leeds)

If you prefer R to Python, there’ll be an R based Data Carpentry workshop coming up in August, just before the start of the new academic year.

HPC Carpentry

Dates: July25th and 26th 2018

This workshop is run in conjunction with our colleagues at EPCC (Edinburgh University) through ARCHER training. It’s an introductory workshop and will use one of the new EPSRC funded ‘Tier 2’ clusters, Cirrus ,rather than our local HPC facilities.

This course is aimed at researchers who have little or no experience of using high performance or high throughput computing but are interested to learn how it could help their research, how they could use it and how it provides additional performance. You need to have previous experience working with the Unix Shell.

You don’t need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.

After completing this course, participants will:

Understand motivations for using HPC in research

Understand how HPC systems are put together to achieve performance and how they differ from desktops/laptops